Opinions about events beyond our borders.

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• What Does It Mean To Be "Pro-Israel"? The election, and the creation of a new dovish Jewish lobby group, brings the question to the fore.
  Shmuel Rosner May 7, 2008
  
• What's Going on in Abkhazia? The Russians are meddling in Georgia, and America can't do much about it.
  Anne Applebaum May 5, 2008
  
• Jimmy Carter's Magic Words Should we talk to our enemies?
  Shmuel Rosner April 29, 2008
  
• Boris vs. Ken London's postmodern mayoral election.
  Anne Applebaum April 29, 2008
  
• A Fading Signal Radio Free Europe still exists—and it's more important than ever.
  Anne Applebaum April 22, 2008
  
• Olympic Flame Out China learns the price of a few weeks of global attention.
  Anne Applebaum April 15, 2008
  
• Passing on the Torch Why are world leaders boycotting the Beijing opening ceremony?
  Jacob Leibenluft April 11, 2008
  
• Disappointing the World Does international enthusiasm for Barack Obama hurt him?
  Shmuel Rosner April 9, 2008
  
• A Wrinkle in the Fabric of Society In Turkey, head scarves are potent political symbols.
  Anne Applebaum April 1, 2008
  
• Boycott Beijing The Olympics are the perfect place for a protest.
  Anne Applebaum March 25, 2008
  
• Live From Lhasa Shaky cell-phone videos from Tibet foretell doom for the Chinese empire.
  Anne Applebaum March 18, 2008
  
• True-to-Life Stories Have political autobiographies made us more susceptible to fake memoirs?
  Anne Applebaum March 11, 2008
  
• Setting Boundaries Can Colombia cross into Ecuador in hot pursuit of rebels?
  Lionel Beehner March 5, 2008
  
• Putin's Potemkin Democracy Why does Russia bother to hold elections?
  Anne Applebaum March 3, 2008
  
• Whose Jerusalem Is It, Anyway? Should diaspora Jews have a say in the political negotiations about Jerusalem?
  Shmuel Rosner Feb. 28, 2008
  
• Musharraf Powerless, Islamists Defeated What happened in the Pakistani elections?
  Nicholas Schmidle Feb. 19, 2008
  
• A Death in Damascus After the assassination of Imad Mughniyah, Hezbollah finds itself squeezed between Syria and Iran.
  Michael Young Feb. 19, 2008
  
• Stir It Up Kosovo is a textbook example of the law of unintended consequences.
  Anne Applebaum Feb. 19, 2008
  
• The End of Pax Americana? We're seeing the Palestinianization of Sinai and the Lebanonization of Egypt.
  Lee Smith Feb. 14, 2008
  
• The Problem Nobody Wants There's only one winner in Gaza: Hamas.
  Shmuel Rosner Feb. 13, 2008
  
• One Nation Under Multiple Gods The British tabloids are right to bash the archbishop of Canterbury.
  Anne Applebaum Feb. 12, 2008
  
• Sarkozy Weds, Plunges in Polls The French president's whirlwind romance reminds voters of his political recklessness.
  Anne Applebaum Feb. 5, 2008
  
• Did a Rainstorm Save Lebanon? The real story behind the street battles in Beirut.
  Mitchell Prothero Feb. 1, 2008
  
• The Lessons of Darfur The campaign has achieved all its goals—but one.
  Shmuel Rosner Jan. 29, 2008
  
• Where Did All Those Gorgeous Russians Come From? The same place as the unglamorous assembly-line workers.
  Anne Applebaum Jan. 28, 2008
  
• Kenya's Problems Aren't Uniquely African It's not just "tribal enmity plus poverty equals violence."
  Anne Applebaum Jan. 22, 2008
  
• The Nano Challenge What happens when the green movement crashes into the anti-poverty crusade?
  Anne Applebaum Jan. 15, 2008
  
• Black Is Electable Barack Obama's skin color is an enormous advantage in the 2008 race.
  Anne Applebaum Jan. 8, 2008
  
• The Lessons of Benazir Bhutto Crafting a better Pakistan policy by studying her achievements.
  Mahnaz Ispahani Jan. 7, 2008
  
• Cruel To Be Kind Why Washington should not reach out to Muslim moderates.
  Ronald R. Krebs Jan. 3, 2008
  
• Home and Away Benazir Bhutto was admired by the West but despised by many of her compatriots.
  Anne Applebaum Jan. 1, 2008